Welcome! The Topic For Today Is… Neuroscience!

1. Welcome! The Topic For Today Is… Neuroscience! By Jessica Salas and Collin Phillips

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3. Neural Process: 200 • Question: • A layer of fatty tissue segmentally encasing the fibers of many neurons? • Answer • What is Myelin Sheath! Back

4. Neural Process: 400 • Question: • Neurotransmitter enabling muscle action, learning, and memory? • Answer • What is Acetecholine (Ach)! Back

5. Neural Process: 600 • Question: • Molecule similar enough in structure to mimic the effect of a neurotransmitter. • Answer • What is an Agonist! Back

6. Neural Process: 800 • Question: • Excitatory signals minus inhibitory signals and exceeding a minimum intensity? (The minimum amount of stimulation needed for neural firing) • Answer • What is Threshold! Back

7. Neural Process: 1000 • Question: • Neurotransmitter influencing movement, learning, attention, and emotion? • Answer • What is Dopamine! Back

8. Brain Parts: 200 • Question: • An area at the rear of the frontal lobes that controls voluntary movements? • Answer • What is the Motor Cortex! Back

9. Brain Parts: 400 • Question: • The base of the brainstem controlling heartbeat and breathing? • Answer • What is the Medulla! Back

10. Brain Parts: 600 • Question: • Influences hunger, thirst, body temperature, and sexual desire? (Sex, drugs, and rock ‘n’ roll!) • Answer • What is the Hypothalamus! Back

11. Brain Parts: 800 • Question: • Visual cortex, angular gyrus, Wernicke’s area, Broca’s area, and motor cortex are involved in what type of processing? • Answer • What is Language! Back

12. Brain Parts: 1000 • Question: • A condition resulting from surgery that isolates the brain’s two hemispheres by cutting the fibers connecting them? • Answer • What is Split Brain! Back

13. Genetics: 200 • Question: • Complete instructions for making an organism? • Answer • What is a Genome! Back

14. Genetics: 400 • Question: • The study of the relative power and limits of genetic and environmental influences on behavior? (Study of genetic and environmental influences on behavior?) • Answer • What is Behavior Genetics! Back

15. Genetics: 600 • Question: • A complex molecule containing the genetic information that makes up the chromosomes? • Answer • What is DNA! Back

16. Genetics: 800 • Question: • A random error in gene replication that leads to a change? (Red hair is an example of this) • Answer • What is Mutation! (Red-headed mutants!) Back

17. Genetics: 1000 • Question: • The extent to which variation among individuals in attributable to their differing genes? • Answer • What is Heritability! • Ex) If the heritability of height is 90%, this DOES NOT mean a woman can attribute 54 inches to genes and the other 6 to environment! Back

18. Neural Systems: 200 • Question: • The body’s speedy, electrochemical communication network, consisting of all the nerve cells of the peripheral and central nervous systems? • Answer • What is Nervous System! Back

19. Neural Systems: 400 • Question: • The sensory and motor neurons that connect the central nervous system (CNS) to the rest of the body? • Answer • What is Peripheral Nervous System! (PNS) Back

20. Neural Systems: 600 • Question: • The part of the peripheral nervous system that controls the glands and the muscles of the internal organs? (Hint: it has 2 divisions) • Answer • What is Autonomic Nervous System! Back

21. Neural Systems: 800 • Question: • System that increases heart rate, blood pressure, blood glucose, perspirations, and slows digestion? • Answer • What is Sympathetic Nervous System! Back

22. Neural Systems: 1000 • Question: • System that calms the body, decreasing heart rate, blood pressure, blood glucose, and perspirations? • Answer • What is Parasympathetic Nervous System! Back

23. Miscellaneous: 200 • Question: • Theory that claimed bumps on the skull could reveal our mental abilities and character traits? • Answer • What is Phrenology! Back

24. Miscellaneous: 400 • Question: • A branch of psychology concerned with the links between biology and behavior? (Think behavioral neuroscientist, neuropsychologist, behavior geneticist, physiological psychologist, or biopsychologist!) • Answer • What is Biological Psychology! Back

25. Miscellaneous: 600 • Question: • A simple, automatic response to a sensory stimulus, such as the knee-jerk response? • Answer • What is a Reflex! Back

26. Miscellaneous: 800 • Question: • Endocrine system’s master gland? • Answer • What is the Pituitary Gland! Under the influence of the hypothalamus, it regulates growth and controls other endocrine glands. Back

27. Miscellaneous: 1000 • Question: • A technique for revealing blood flow and, therefore, brain activity by comparing successive MRI scans? • Answer • What is an fMRI! (functional MRI) Back

28. Bonus Question: 5000 pts. • Question: • Man whose frontal lobe was impaled by a rod damaging his frontal lobe and changed him from affable and soft-spoken to irritable, profane, and dishonest? • Answer • Drum roll! • What is Phineas Gage! Back

29. Daily Double The Winner Of The Last Round Write Down How Much Money You Are Willing To Risk If You get the Question rightyou win that money If you get it wrong you Loss the money!

30. Daily Double The Winner Of The Last Round Write Down How Much Money You Are Willing To Risk If You get the Question rightyou win that money If you get it wrong you Loss the money!